Instructors

P. Benson Shing received a Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1983, and continued as a research engineer and lecturer at Berkeley for a year and a half. Shing joined the faculty at the University of Colorado's Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering in 1985, rising from assistant to associate professor in 1990, and full professor in 1995. He was a visiting professor at Politecnico di Milano and the University of Trenton, both in Italy, for five months in 1993. He has won a variety of awards during his career, including the American Society of Civil Engineer's Arthur M. Wellington Prize in 1997, and the Alan H. Yorkdale Award from the American Society of Testing and Materials in 1991 and 1993. He was a keynote speaker at the 1996 Italian National Conference on Masonry Mechanics, and won the Outstanding Conference Paper Award at North American Masonry Conferences in 1990, 1993, and 1999.